Assessing dangerous climate impacts for the Netherlands
In order to understand the urgency with which climate change needs to be controlled, it is important to realise the extent to which climate change can become dangerous for countries. The key question…
IPCC (2001) indicates that climate change will take place despite the mitigation strategies that are going to be implemented. This calls for adaptation strategies in order to reduce the vulnerability…
The future of vascular plant diversity under four global scenarios
Biodiversity is of crucial importance for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Using quantitative projections of changes in land use and climate from the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment…
Integrating agriculture forestry and other land use in future climate regimes
The current agreement under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol takes a fragmented approach to emissions and removals from Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU): not all activities, not all…
Accessibility appraisal of integrated land-use-transport strategies: methodology and case study for the Netherlands Randstad area
This paper examines job accessibility impacts of intensive and multiple land-use scenarios in the Netherlands’ Randstad Area for the period 1996-2030, aimed at increasing the density and diversity of…
Denitritication across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis
Both newly fixed N and recycled N (e.g., manure) are processed by terrestrial ecosystems. A substantial portion of this recycled N is subsequently transferred to groundwater, wetlands, lakes, rivers…
Moving boundaries in transboundary air pollution co-production of science and policy under the convention on long range transboundary air pollution
This article focuses on the science–policy interaction in international negotiations in the context of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Convention for Long Range Transboundary Air…
The Dutch countryside is losing its rural and open character and is increasingly affected by visually intrusive developments. More and more farm buildings have a purely residential function, and…
Environmental policy and modelling in evolutionary economics
Evolutionary economics is a systems approach, where activities at the micro-level lead to macro-level changes. Such tools are especially useful for the assessment of environmental policies, which are…
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